Mike and Ting look back on 2025.

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Show Notes:

Year in Review

• Undertale - Snowdin Remix (YouTube)
• A $5 Million Gift From Sega Saved Nvidia - GameSpot
• A Minecraft Movie (2025) 4K - Steve vs. Malgosha | Movieclips (YouTube)
• Despite Past Viral AI Fakes, This Grand Theft Auto 6 Leak Looks Real - GameSpot
• Brief explanation: why people are angry about pre-announced DLC : LegendsZA
• Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax's new IP, and other unannounced projects | Windows Central
• The Windows 11 Crisis (YouTube)
• Steam Web API - Valve Developer Community
• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Rises to $30 a Month, Microsoft Adds More Day One Games and Throws in Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+ Classics to Help Justify the Cost - IGN
• Costco Confirms It Will No Longer Sell Xbox Consoles
• Silksong finally has a release date, officially, from Team Cherry and everything—putting an end to over half a decade of Silksanity | PC Gamer
• Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary
• Hades II Reviews - Metacritic
• Pokemon Legends: Z-A Reviews - Metacritic
• After Raising Over $1 Billion From Players, Star Citizen Dev Chris Roberts Hopes Squadron 42's 2026 Launch Will Be 'Almost as Big an Event' as GTA 6 - IGN
• Steam Hardware Announcement (YouTube)
• Cut Content From Metroid Prime 4 Reveals Its Companions Were Meant To Be Even More Annoying
• Shadow of Mordor's innovative Nemesis system is locked behind a patent until 2036
• Scaled agile framework - Wikipedia
• Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive (of course it's AI) and why PC gaming hardware prices are only going to keep rising, even probably for GPUs | PC Gamer
• Now what do I do!?!? #wholesome #animals - YouTube
• Announcing a New Shorts Remix Capability - YouTube Community
• How did Zach braff win an Oscar for garden state when he just picked music he liked and slapped it on a CD? : r/NoStupidQuestions

Stats

• Deltarune - Dark Sanctuary Remix (YouTube)
• 2025 Wrap Up (stats spreadsheet)
• Slay the Spire 2 Release Date Slips to March 2026 — and No, It Had Nothing to Do With Silksong, Dev Insists - IGN
• Borderlands 4 Review - Too Much Of An Overcorrection - GameSpot
• Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers Of Very Cool Video Games - Kotaku
• Kaizen: A Factory Story review | Rock Paper Shotgun
• Donkey Kong Bananza: Post-Game - What To Do After Rolling Credits | Nintendo Life
• Mario kart 8 deluxe vs Mario kart world. Which game do you enjoy playing the most? : mariokart
• Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it
• Welcome to Springfield - Fortnite | The Simpsons (YouTube)
• Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter Seven: Pacific Break - v39.00 Update Notes
• The Rise of the Golden Idol: Detective Pass Trailer (YouTube)
• BALL x PIT
• Cloverpit Official Game Announcement | Triple-i Showcase 2025 (YouTube)
• The Roottrees are Dead
• Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review (Switch) | Nintendo Life
• ZELDA NOTES for Nintendo Switch App